Comments on: Once There Was ‘A Christmas Story’

By: haym

haym — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:20:30 +0000

Happy and Healthy New Year to all my BAB Friends! Especially to Ilana! Only the best for all of you – and to our nation, and the Western way of life.

By: Mari Tyers

Mari Tyers — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:56:32 +0000

Great column! My family and I love this movie, and watch it every Christmas. I hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas yesterday.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:50:53 +0000

Memo To Erudites:

Great column Ilana! I was chuckling all the way through because four weeks ago, the day after Thanksgiving, our whole family went out into the country for our annual “Turkey Shoot” with the family’s collection of sidearms, rifles, the Mossberg, and a coupla’ boxes of clay pigeons, all of whom have been sent to ‘clay pigeon heaven’…

One of our ‘funnest’ photos is of 9-year-old Rachel kneeling on the firing line to cock her–you guessed it–Red Ryder BB gun. Yes, this motley crew consisting of nurses, landscape architects, a U.S. Naval SeaBee, a U.C. Berkeley Grad (the Mossberg owner–hates Berkeley) a missionary, a minister, and a seminary student working on a masters in cultural anthropology would be dismissed at a distance as a ‘bunch of rednecks’. Actually, we just enjoy recreational target shooting. The old 60 caliber, black powder, Dragoon (pirate pistol) is great fun.

The assault on the family continues evidently… haven’t several reported lately about the marriage penalty in the Unhealthy Careless Deformed Legislation?

About 2 thousand a year in premiums for two people earning 30k apiece, or 60 k for the year. But if those SAME people are married… OVER $11,000 IN PREMIUMS FOR THE SAME COVERAGE ?!?!

The left wants to entirely detonate the nuclear family. The more dismantled and dysfunctional the country, the more power they have.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:15:48 +0000

Dear Ilana
I thoroughly enjoyed your column on The Christmas Story movie. The movie AND your column resonate with me for very personal reasons. These days I’m always encouraged to know that I’m not alone with these convictions. Thank you for writing your piece.
Merry Christmas!
Tom

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:56:15 +0000

Merry Christmas to you also Ilana.

By: Ms. L. D. Davis

Ms. L. D. Davis — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:45:12 +0000

The decline of the family unit in America is truly a sad situation. I think that’s why many of the old, family-orientated sitcoms are still syndicated and DVD favorites. It shows how the family should be, since many families aren’t like that anymore. I agree that the breakdown of the family unit is a root cause to many of society’s ills, not to mention the lack of Biblical morality that governs each individual outside of their family unit. Children have parents that are older than them for a reason: they don’t know enough to make decisions for themselves. Giving children more power, control, and privacy has proven disastrous, since much has been given without requiring them to bear the consequences for their decisions. The “Leave It To Beaver” life does mean security to a child. The single, matriarchal parent family is the new dysfunctional norm. I’m single, never married, w/no kids; but it’s amazing how many ignorant people think that if you’re not married, divorced a few times or at least have some kids out of wedlock, then you’re not normal. It’s intriguing how many people my life bothers. I’d rather my norm than theirs any day. I’ve seen stats. that talk about the A. American family unit being in crisis. I can vouch for that, because the amount of desirable Black men, by Biblical standards, is almost a extinct.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:40:49 +0000

Ilana, your news has just spoiled my Christmas. Unlike earlier indulgences into Socialism, I think that the financial cancer has metastasized and that this country is heading to the financial equivalent of the “Big Crunch”. [In astrophysics terms, it is the opposite of the Big Bang and it is where everything collapses and nothing can be viewed past that event]. Any Republican “reforms” on the “reform” will only add even MORE to government, as has been the history of Republicans since 1930.

Thinking back to your column on “A Christmas Story” – the pre-New-Deal generation that believed in savings and economic self-reliance is gone now. Even the children from that generation are now retirees hooked on Medicare and Socialist Insecurity.

Perhaps we should all just get drunk or high or LOBOTOMIZED and be optimistic like the Reason magazine “libertarians” who ignore the annual $ 2 trillion deficits and rhapsodize on how much smut can now fit on the new generation of I-pods, etc.

What comes after the Big Crunch? – Warlordism, anarchy, totalitarianism, 3rd world living standards, freedom – hard to predict.

By: Robert Rupard

Robert Rupard — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:17:09 +0000

God love you for writing this. If we have one singular issue in this country it is the dissolution of the nuclear family. Your daddy should be proud Ilana. Merry Christmas to you!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:06:00 +0000

My God, the director and son were killed by an alien?? Need we anymore signs of the times? Lord bless their family.

My whole family loves this movie and watches it with pride every Christmas. I’m happy to say our town still features reindeer, bells, and Christmas tree symbols on the light posts, as well as numerous Nativity scenes. As far as I’m concerned, any offended liberals can wear tinsel over their faces if they don’t want to see this.

A Merry Christmas to you Ilana, and a huge Huzzah! for your book going back in print. Bonus material too? That means a rebuy for me.